Archives - 10 December 2013, Tuesday

Chad Pytel December 10, 2013 news I am excited to announce that Kaplan Test Prep, the global leader in test prep, and thoughtbot have partnered to launch a new web development bootcamp for individuals interested in becoming professional Ruby on Rails web developers, called Metis . The...

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With huge strides in innovative mobile products, there is now an expectation that health information should be readily accessed via mobile devices. However, barriers to widespread mobile health (mHealth) adoption are present and can be attributed to multiple factors including: Misalig...

The RubyConf Taiwan 2014 Call For Proposals is Now Open The RubyConf Taiwan 2014 will take place on April 25-26, 2014 in Taipei, Taiwan. If you want to give a presentation at RubyConf Taiwan 2014, please submit your proposal. Any topics related to Ruby are welcomed. There are two kind...

December 6th, 2013 What does Spring have to do with Rails 4.1, Rails security news, a few cool tips like pundit, pry rescue and RASK, good advice for upgrading to capistrano 3, and the plan to sunset bundler all in this RubyLoco-powered Ruby5. Episode #423 – December 3rd, 2013 This we...

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Travis CI added a feature to cache dependencies between builds for their paying customers. In projects where resolving and fetching dependencies is a slow operation–e.g. in any Ruby project–this can shave a significant amount off total build time , resulting in faster feedback from CI...

is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...

Softcover: a Ruby-based ebook system View all Proposals Softcover: a Ruby-based ebook system This talk describes Softcover, a Ruby-based system for writing and publishing ebooks. Special focus is given to the softcover command-line client for generating, building, and deploying book p...

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Although the usage and purpose of field_for is similar to form_for 's, its method signature is slightly different. Like form_for , it yields a FormBuilder object associated with a particular model object to a block, and within the block allows methods to be called on the builder to ge...

Chad Pytel December 10, 2013 news I am excited to announce that Kaplan Test Prep, the global leader in test prep, and thoughtbot have partnered to launch a new web development bootcamp for individuals interested in becoming professional Ruby on Rails web developers, called Metis . The...

The application’s CSS file now requires a foundation_and_overrides file that was created by the generator. This loads in the Foundation framework and allows us to customize it by setting variables. We won’t show this file here as it’s very long, although most of it is comments showing...

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Returns a JSON string representing the model. Some configuration can be passed through options . The option ActiveModel::Base.include_root_in_json controls the top-level behavior of to_json . It is true by default. When it is true , to_json will emit a single root node named after the...

Finally, OS X Mavericks has a problem to install the rmagick gem which is optional for a successful installation of Redmine, but if you want to display images and charts it's necessary. Get the following packages: ImageMagick - http://cactuslab.com/imagemagick/ (Note there are two ver...

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I'd like to second the desire for this feature. We've been using Bugzilla as our issue tracker some time now. Bugzilla has the ability for private issues and private comments and I can say we use the private comments feature much more (although the private issue feature is helpful as ...

is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...

Memory. More processes implies a higher memory usage. If too much memory is used then the machine will hit swap, which slows everything down. You should only have as many processes as memory limits comfortably allow. Threads use less memory, so prefer threads when possible. You can cr...